SS Prince Albert

SS Prince Albert

Prince Albert was a coastal steamer which carried passengers and freight connecting to DAR lines at Kingsport, Wolfville and to the Canadian National at Parrsboro. The twin screw Prince Albert replaced the smaller SS Evangeline on the Kingsport-Parrsboro service in 1904 and added Wolfville to the route. Continuing the DAR steamer tradition of "Prince" names, she was the smallest of the DAR fleet at the time but still bore a large brass DAR crest on her bows. She was replaced by the MV Kipawo in 1927 as the DAR needed a vessel which could better serve the growing automobile traffic.

Gallery

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  Kingsport Wharf with Locomotive No. 12; Combine No. 24 (behind engine) and Combine No. 31 meeting the DAR ferry SS Prince Albert, summer 1911.

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  Schooner Fieldwood at the Kingsport wharf, with SS Prince Albert astern. Date unknown.

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  Postcard showing SS Prince Albert at Parrsboro.

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  Reverse of postcard - writing says:"This is just a view of my hometown, B."

References and Footnotes

• Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), Gary Ness, page 5
• Marguerite Woodworth, History of the Dominion Atlantic Railway, page 147
• Canning Library and Heritage Centre, Historical Calendar 2000, March